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PhilippineHistory

A collection of 10 posts

November 17, 2020

Lessons of the 1969 Student Strikes in the Philippines

One of the more important tasks for an historian is bringing the experiences and lessons of history to bear upon contemporary developments. As students in the Philippines are currently organizing strikes demanding, in increasingly political language, an end to government...

JomaSison PhilippineHistory Strike

October 15, 2020

Stalinist apologetics and intellectual charlatanry: a response to Teo Marasigan

On August 26, I delivered an online lecture, “First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Marcos, Duterte, and the Communist Parties of the Philippines,” as part of a postdoctoral seminar series at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.

JomaSison PhilippineHistory Stalinism

April 16, 2020

Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: the revolution diffused

An eruption of protests and violence — molotov cocktails and gunfire — in the streets of Manila, launched the heady, charged days of January to March 1970. The paroxysm that opened the decade came to be known as the First...

FQS MarcosDictatorship PhilippineHistory

March 3, 2020

Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: People’s Marches and the end of the FQS

Prevented from gathering in Miranda, the mass dissent turned to marches, but by the end of its third month, with no clear political goal, the storm blew itself out.

FQS MarcosDictatorship PhilippineHistory

February 4, 2020

Fifty years since the First Quarter Storm: the People’s Congresses of February

Mass social outrage began to take organized political form, as protestors repeatedly gathered en masse at Plaza Miranda over the course of February 1970 for a series of “People’s Congresses.”

FQS MarcosDictatorship PhilippineHistory

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